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Joe Slovo Quotes

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: south african
Birth: May 23, 1926 - January 6, 1995

Topics

Vision Racism Done Africa Matter

When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was rather... chaste. There wasn't much public reading. Then there was poetry and jazz, which I don't think worked, though I love jazz.

Love Poetry Reading Think You Jazz

If we did end tomorrow, I would be so stoked and proud of everything I've done and how I lived my life. I feel like I've had enough experiences for multiple lives.

Life Tomorrow Proud End My Life

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

Ambition Growing Up Hockey Acting Up

If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.

Discipline Eating Hell Short You

Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.

Leadership World Choices America Him

I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about themselves and others.

Steven Millhauser

Daily Truth People Me Truth Is Way

No one doubts the enormity of the social challenges we face around the world but one critical element of our response must be the generation of new thinking and ideas. Yet creating the conditions that make this possible is not simple.

Simon Mainwaring

Simple Ideas Challenges World Face

I don't care what Tom Cruise says about therapy.

Care Therapy Cruise Tom Cruise Says

If I'm enjoying something, I'd like to be able to just have it all. Frankly, that's the way I'm approaching my career now. I'm a total workaholic.

Career Now Way Something Workaholic

Without net neutrality protections, the Internet would no longer be a free and open ecosystem for innovation.

Innovation Free Internet Open Would

Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then just sort of follow them around through the narrative. I think that these writers are out of their minds.

Think You Create Say Minds Follow

I'm not a Bal Harbour Shops kind of guy.

Kind Guy Harbour Shops

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